E
- ear
Small stroke projecting from the top of the lowercase g.
- Egyptian
A category of type that has slab serifs and little contrast in the strokes. The category is also known as slab serifs.
- elite
A monospaced typewriter typeface that sets 12 characters per inch.
- ellipsis
Three dots (...) used to indicate an omission of text or a thought that trails off.
- em
A horizontal unit of measure equal to the point size of the type in use. It’s about the width of the capital letter M.
- em dash
A long dash used to indicate a shift in thought—it sets off emphatic material that is too important to put in parentheses.
- em space
A non-breaking space as wide as the point size of the type in use.
- en
A horizontal unit of measure equal to half the point size ...
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